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Reporting to the CCO, you will be responsible for driving revenue growth, operational efficiency, and performance management, helping shape and implement commercial initiatives that align with our ambitious goals and values. This role requires a proactive leader with a strong process orientation, entrepreneurial spirit and someone who can balance strategic insight with a roll-up-your-sleeves approach.

• Strategic Planning & Execution: Partner with the CCO to develop and implement the commercial strategy, ensuring clear, actionable goals that drive sustainable growth and profitability.
• Sales Operations Management: Lead and continuously improve the end-to-end sales operations function, including pipeline management, sales forecasting, and resource allocation. Work closely with sales leaders to ensure process-driven execution, holding the team to high-performance standards while fostering an open, ego-free environment.
• Data Analysis & Insights: Develop and oversee commercial performance metrics and KPI’s, using data to uncover insights that drive revenue growth. Develop and implement a process-oriented approach to reporting and analytics to ensure the CCO and other stakeholders have access to meaningful and real-time insights to support strategic decision-making.
• Process Improvement: Take a proactive approach to identify and implement best practice, refine sales and operational processes to support scalability. Demonstrate a hands-on, no-task-too-small mindset, constantly seeking ways to improve efficiency across the team and willing to roll up your sleeves where needed.
• Budget & Resource Allocation: Work closely with finance to manage the commercial budget, monitoring expenditures to ensure effective, action-focused resource allocation. Collaborate with the CCO to balance ambition with practicality in growth planning.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Serve as a bridge between sales, marketing, product, and finance, facilitating effective communication and alignment on objectives and results.
• Team Leadership & Development: Lead, mentor and grow a team of commercial operations professionals, building a culture rooted in humility, resilience, and continuous improvement. Actively inspire the team to be proactive, curious, and ready to take on challenges with a bias toward action and innovation.

What you will need 

• Extensive experience in commercial operations, sales operation, or business operations roles, preferably in high-growth or entrepreneurial settings
• Demonstrable success in designing and implementing scalable commercial strategies that drive revenue
• Excellent analytical skills with expertise in data analysis, reporting, and financial forecasting; able to turn insights into actionable initiatives
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to influence across all levels while fostering a collaborative, ego-free culture
• Proficiency in CRM software, sales tools, and analytics platforms
• Proven leadership skills with a demonstrated ability to motivate, coach, and develop teams in a fast-paced, action-orientated environment

What’s in it for you

Salary – Highly competitive

Bonus – Performance related bonus scheme

Annual Leave – 25 days, plus statutory holidays

Private Healthcare – Able to add family members at an extra cost

Lunch – Nutritious meals provided every day

Cycle scheme – Redeemable for bikes and related equipment

Social events – Monthly & quarterly social events

Who are we 

DEEP is accelerating deep sea exploration and preservation through the development of new technologies which enable humans to operate for longer periods of time and radically advance how humankind can access, explore and inhabit underwater environments.  DEEP completely transforms what we are capable of underwater – and will increase our understanding of life on this planet!

Our planet’s oceans hold answers to some of the most significant challenges facing humanity today, and yet they are almost completely unknown and unexplored. At DEEP, our mission is to radically open up access to the oceans through pioneering new technologies. These will empower scientists and researchers to fully understand the impact of our current way of life on the oceans and find new ways for us to protect our seas, their inhabitants and ourselves.

Working at DEEP

We are an expert team of highly experienced engineers, operations, and safety experts, with a funding model that allows us the freedom to think long term and pursue our mission without traditional restraints. We want to drive progress at the forefront of deep-sea innovation and discovery to become stewards of the oceans and reshape our relationship with our planet.

As an organization with multi-generational objectives and revolutionizing humankinds' relationship with the ocean the values we work to each day are critical:

Be Curious – Make a better way, and ask why not? Answers are easy, questions are hard – Find original questions and be a curiosity catalyst!

Be Exceptional – It will take the most intelligent, talented and creative people on the planet working together to achieve the vision. Get it done, be relentless in your pursuit of excellence and demand excellence from everyone.

Be Fearless – No one has done this before! Impossible things must be done the first time. We are the team and going first!

Be Good – Cultivate passion and thrive together. Be safe, we take intelligent risks, but we will never compromise on the safety of our team – ever!

At DEEP, we celebrate and embrace diversity and inclusion and strongly believe that the best innovations come from diverse perspectives. We invite applicants from all backgrounds to join us in creating technology that makes a meaningful impact on humanity, our oceans and planet.